• Oct. 8: Police took a report after a driver left the Duke station without paying for $20 of fuel.

• Oct. 9: Police were called to the Kroger store on a report of a person destroying a pack of meat and then trying to return it without ever purchasing it.

• Oct. 9: Police were called to the area of North Maple Street and Ohio 79 on a cow running loose. The owner said the latch on the gate on his trailer rattled open crossing the railroad tracks. The cow got out when the driver stopped for the traffic light. Police tried to capture the cow until it got too dark to see it in the nearby cornfields. Later, an Ohio State Highway Patrol cruiser struck the cow on Ohio 79.

• Oct. 9: A Broadway Street apartment resident told police that someone had broken into his home and had taken several items.